Port Vila
/ˌpɔː(ɹ)t ˈviːlə/
"port-vila" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Port Vila” is outside the top-ranked English vocabulary, used as a proper noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - The capital and largest city of Vanuatu.
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|---|---|
| Headword | Port Vila |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /ˌpɔː(ɹ)t ˈviːlə/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Port Vila” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for Port Vila is 9 letters long, classified as a proper noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˌpɔː(ɹ)t ˈviːlə/. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "The capital and largest city of Vanuatu.".
No misspelling variants are generated for Port Vila in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct English form is Port Vila, spelled P-O-R-T- -V-I-L-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1The capital and largest city of Vanuatu.
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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- The one correct English spelling is P-O-R-T- -V-I-L-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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